I think it’s been assumed that Jensen will eventually be poached off for a head coaching job elsewhere. He’s a local guy who I presume grew up on Stockton and Malone and obviously knows the history and culture of the franchise. But he’ll probably end up coaching elsewhere. I don’t believe anyone has any thoughts of him coaching here, especially when you consider the dynamics. If Quin is fired, we’d run a search for someone who’s Danny’s guy. Or we’d be grabbing some vet coach or someone who has some kind of personal connection. This wouldn’t be the time that we’d take a roll-of-the-dice selection. But if Ainge were to show that he means business and fired Quin mid-season, this would allow us a fairly unique opportunity to try before you buy.
My biggest hesitation with moving on from Quin is bringing in an outsider casual who doesn’t really understand Gobert. Too many people across the league, even people otherwise regarded as intelligent, are pretty clueless to the importance of Gobert (honestly it’s a concern I’ve got about Ainge), but it does seem a national tone shift on that has happened. For someone like Alex Jensen taking the reins, it allows us to keep that continuity while hopefully improving on some of the baffling shortcomings that current exist. It would allow us to determine if perhaps Jensen could be that guy while also maintaining a connection to what’s been so successful over the Quin years. I’m not going to pretend to know about scouting coaching talent when they’re in an assistant role, but he at least does have some HC experience.
If he hypothetically stepped in tomorrow and had a sit-down with Ainge on philosophy and what tweaks this team needs now, Ainge can move in that direction this deadline and we can ride out the rest of the year, because I believe continuing this nonsense will be another wasted post-season. Would love to be proven wrong on that, but there’s no hard data or examples that can be pointed to if Quin being able to adapt in high stress situations, protect leads in important games, or even win an overtime game in 4 ****ing years. And I think an abrupt move like that should wake the team up.
We missed a lot by not being able to obtain Conley at the previous deadline and that came at a large opportunity and continuity cost. Waiting until the off-season to make a move is delaying the inevitable for no purpose.
My biggest hesitation with moving on from Quin is bringing in an outsider casual who doesn’t really understand Gobert. Too many people across the league, even people otherwise regarded as intelligent, are pretty clueless to the importance of Gobert (honestly it’s a concern I’ve got about Ainge), but it does seem a national tone shift on that has happened. For someone like Alex Jensen taking the reins, it allows us to keep that continuity while hopefully improving on some of the baffling shortcomings that current exist. It would allow us to determine if perhaps Jensen could be that guy while also maintaining a connection to what’s been so successful over the Quin years. I’m not going to pretend to know about scouting coaching talent when they’re in an assistant role, but he at least does have some HC experience.
If he hypothetically stepped in tomorrow and had a sit-down with Ainge on philosophy and what tweaks this team needs now, Ainge can move in that direction this deadline and we can ride out the rest of the year, because I believe continuing this nonsense will be another wasted post-season. Would love to be proven wrong on that, but there’s no hard data or examples that can be pointed to if Quin being able to adapt in high stress situations, protect leads in important games, or even win an overtime game in 4 ****ing years. And I think an abrupt move like that should wake the team up.
We missed a lot by not being able to obtain Conley at the previous deadline and that came at a large opportunity and continuity cost. Waiting until the off-season to make a move is delaying the inevitable for no purpose.
